The Wrong Hands: The new intriguing, unique and completely unpredictable Detective Miller mystery
(Paperback)
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Paperback
Published: 1st April 2025
Paperback
Published: 25th June 2024
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Published: 8th October 2024
Publishing Details
The Wrong Hands: The new intriguing, unique and completely unpredictable Detective Miller mystery
By (Author) Mark Billingham
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
1st April 2025
16th January 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: cosy mystery
Physical Properties
Paperback
416
Width 126mm, Height 196mm, Spine 32mm
280g
Description
'Had me laughing out loud one minute and emotional the next. I'm excited to have found a new favourite detective' --- CLAIRE DOUGLAS
This is one case Miller won't want to open . . . Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Still desperate to solve the murder of his wife, a young man has just appeared on his doorstep with a briefcase . . . containing a pair of severed hands.Miller knows this case is proof of a contract killing commissioned by local ne'er do well Wayne Cutler - a man he suspects might also be responsible for his wife's death. Now Miller has leverage, but unfortunately he also has something that both Cutler and a villainous fast-food kingpin are desperate to get hold of. Chuck in a Midsomer Murders-obsessed hitman, a psychotic welder and a woman driven over the edge by a wayward Creme Egg, and Miller is in a mess that even he might not be able to dance his way out of.Reviews
Mark Billingham does edge-of-your-seat tension, wit and heart like no one else. The Wrong Hands has all that and more - it's simply fantastic * Lisa Jewell *
I adored everything about The Wrong Hands! Darkly funny with colourful characters and a clever, twisty plot that had me laughing out loud one minute and emotional the next. I love Mark Billingham's writing and I'm excited to have found a new favourite detective in the ballroom dancing, rat-loving DS Miller * Claire Douglas *
There is a laugh on every page yet it is the depiction of Miller's furious grief that is most impressive and provides a heartbreaking finale * The Times *
The second instalment of a fine, funny new series -- John Connolly
Neat plot twists and a likable cast of offbeat characters, all served up with plenty of black humour * Mail on Sunday *
Billingham's underworld convinces in its brutality, grubbiness and greed, and it is impossible not to cheer for Miller * Literary Review *
Electrifying . . . Throw in a delightfully madcap plot and breakneck pacing, and readers are left with a caper they won't soon forget * Publishers Weekly *
Smart, decisive and funny as heck. Fabulously original, The Wrong Hands now joins its older sister as a star book . . . Gift-wrapped in Mark Billingham's fabulous style, The Wrong Hands plays a blinder * LoveReading *
Get your hands on both novels to delight in quirky DS Miller * Sunday Times (South Africa) *
It would be worth your time and money getting your hands on both novels [The Last Dance and The Wrong Hands] to delight in quirky DS Miller * Sunday Times South Africa *
Author Bio
Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year, and has also won a Sherlock Award for the Best Detective created by a British writer. Each of the novels featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne has been a Sunday Times bestseller. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Thorne, and a series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death was broadcast on BBC1. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.
